IMP C M Q TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG, laureate cuirassed bust right / LIBERALITAS AVG, SC in ex, Decius seated left on curule chair set on a low platform, right hand extended, officer standing left behind him, ...
Laureate - Head crowned with laurel wreath.
LD - Acronym for large date.
Legal tender - Money that may be legally offered in payment of an obligation and that a creditor must accept as payment.
laureate - crowned with a wreath of laurel, victorious.
legend - the letters or words written around the curved edge of a coin.
lituus - the curved staff of an augur (q.v.).
Laureate
Wearing a wreath of laurel leaves, which symbolize honour and victory. Often shown on the heads of deities on Roman coins.
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Laureate
Head crowned with a laurel wreath.
Legal Tender
Coins or currency which must be accepted in payment of debt.
Laureate - Head crowned with laurel wreath.
Legend - The principal inscription on a coin.
Lettered Edge - The narrow edge of a coin bearing an inscription, found on some foreign and older United States coins.
Laureate - The name given to a bust of a usually male person (usually The King) with a laurel of leaves places on his head in a Roman style. The last British coinage example was George IV (1820-30) on his early coinage.
laureate
Refers to any figure on a coin which bears a crown of laurel leaves.
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Laureate - A bust crowned with a wreath of laurel leaves.
Laurel - The James I gold twenty shilling piece first struck in 1619. It gets its `name' from the laurel wreath on the king's head.
G - Laureate with spear and/or shield (also either together or with other adjuncts)
G1 - laureate, draped, spear across right shoulder
G2 - laureate, cuirassed, spear across right shoulder ...
Countermark "laureate" frequent on Traianus (left) and rarer on a Hadrianus (right) AEs from Antiochia.
Laureated bust of Maximianus right in imperial mantle, right hand holding olive branch and left a mappa
D N MAXIMIANO FELICISSIMO SEN AVG
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Laureate head right
Reverse:
Judea, as a mourning captive, seated right on the ground at the foot of a trophy ...
Laureate Head Right
The most common of the portraits types shows the emperor wearing a wreath of laurel leaves tied in the back with the ends of the ribbon (?) hanging down behind.
laureate bust, draped and curiassed
laureate bust, curiassed, holding palladium
radiate bust, draped ...
Laureate! Imitation denarius, with thin lighter metal on some of the surface, and its prototype.
-Laureate head of Julius Caesar / VOCONIVS VITVLVS Q DESIGN S C, a calf standing.
[See wood cut No. 1 at the head of the biographical notice, p. 151] ...
Obv: CEBA
Laureate head right.
Rev: BKC to left (AD 118/9)
War god Phanebal, standing facing, holding sword, shield and palm.
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laureate
- coin design of a head crowned with a laurel wreath. luster - a frosty and shiney appearance found on some uncirculated (mint state) coins.
Head of Zeus, laureate, facing.
[Z. f. N., xi. Pl. I. 4.]
ΑΥΤΟΚΑ Wreath.
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Obverse Type 1: Laureate head left, GEORGIUS IIII D G BRITANNIAR REX FD around.
Obverse Type 2: Bare head left, GEORGIUS IV DEI GRATIA around, date below.
Reverse Type 1: Shield, large crown above, ANNO 1821 below ...
Lederman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
July 18 - Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science (d. 1996)
July 19 - Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, King of Malaysia
July 31 - Bill Kaysing, American writer ...
An attribute is usually something attached to or held by the figure portrayed: thus a bust might be laureate or diademed, hold a sceptre or palm branch; a standing figure might be naked or draped, wear headgear or not, or hold branch, cornucopiae, ...
The silver coinage of 1858 bears on its obverse a laureate portrait of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) surrounded by her royal title in Latin. The word CANADA appears below her bust.
Obv: Laureate bust of Rabbel right; date behind
Rev: Veiled bust of his mother Shuqailat right.
Meshorer 142.
Prior to the annexation of Arabia by Rome, Nabatea was a power that rivaled any of its neighbors.
Laureate bust rt./VICTORIAE SARMATICAE, Campgate with 4 beacons and open doors, Nicomedia mint, RIC 19b(R4). Centered, light tone, nice bold high relief portrait and reverse, RARE, Extremely Fine....
Obverse: Bust facing right wearing a laureate (wreath on head) and cuirassed (breast plate). Inscription reads CONSTANTINVS IVN NOB C (Constantine Junior Nobel Caesar).
Obverse: DIOCLETI-ANVS AVG, laureate head of Diocletian right. Reverse: VIRTVS MILITVM, the four tetrarchs sacrificing over tripod before city enclosure with eight turrets.
Obverse: Laureate bust of Tiberius right with his name and titles around in Greek (about 50% of the legend can be read with difficulty, including most of the name).
The matching coin types differ in their obverse design (radiate vs laureate and head vs bust with cuirass and paludamentum) and obverse legends. The easiest way to find these differences would be to:
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The obverse depicts the older laureate bust of George III. The 1787 shilling was minted with three different obverses, the most common with the dot above the head, or less commonly with no dot above the head.
The 40 Franc Gold Napoleon laureate coin coin had 2/5 ounce of gold and the 50 Franc coin had approximately 1/2 ounce of gold. The main use of these gold coins in France's history was to buy armies for wars.
Laureate head right imp caes vesp avg pm cos iiii/Vespasian in triumphal quadriga right holding branch and scepter. The reverse commemorates the triumph of Vespasian and Titus over Judaea and is the same scene as depicted on the arch of Titus. .
The first was a laureate head used from 1820, the second was a bare head used only on the £2 coins of 1823, and the third was the bare head used from 1826 onwards.
The obverse depicts the laureated head of King George II, facing left, in jacket of cloth and armor. Surrounding is the inscription GEORGIVS II DEI GRATIA.
The token, which was current for one beaver pelt, depicts on the obverse a beaver resting on a tree stump with the legend NORTH WEST COMPANY and on the reverse a laureate bust facing right with TOKEN 1820 around it.
 See also: Bust, Wreath, Coinage, Reverse, Revers
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